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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD philosophy (was Linux Killer App (ksmbfs))
Date: 7 Oct 1995 23:05:31 +0100
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Graham Menhennitt <gfm@werple.net.au> wrote:

>... You do want to have restrictions on people
>mounting drives from all around the world but this is more of a firewall
>issue than a login one.

Firewalls are a lame excuse for a total lack of system administration.
A properly administered system does only gain one thing by a firewall:
inconvenience to its user(s).

Jörg (typing this on his "home" computer...)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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